MOMUS

UK DISCOGRAPHY

29 March 1982 non-LP 7" The Happy Family: Puritans

    Puritans//Innermost Thoughts/The Mistake (4AD, AD 204)
Nick Currie: guitar, vocals. David Weddéll: bass. Ronnie Torrance: drums. Paul Mason: guitar.

25 Sep 1982 LP (+ CD) THE HAPPY FAMILY: THE MAN ON YOUR STREET

  1. The Salesman
  2. Letter from Hall
  3. The Luckiest Citizen
  4. Revenge!
  5. The Courier
  6. The Man on Your Street
  7. A Night Underground
  8. Two of a Kind
  9. March in Turin
  10. Puritans [CD bonus track]
  11. Innermost Thoughts [CD bonus track]
  12. The Mistake [CD bonus track] (CD Oct 1987: 4AD, CAD 214)

Oct 1985 non-LP 12" The Beast with Three Backs

  1. Ballad of the Barrel-Organist
  2. Hotel Marquis de Sade
  3. Third Party, Fire and Theft (él Benélux, él 5T)
Recorded 1985 at Rue au Fleurs, Brussels, Belgium.

Jan 1986 LP (+ CD 1988) CIRCUS MAXIMUS

  1. Lucky Like St. Sebastian
  2. The Lesson of Sodom (according to Lot)
  3. John the Babtist Jones
  4. King Solomon's Song and Mine
  5. Little Lord Obedience
  6. The Day the Circus Came to Town
  7. The Rape of Lucretia
  8. Paper Wraps Rock
  9. Rules of the Game of Quoits
  10. "Nicky" [CD bonus track]
  11. Don't Leave [CD bonus track]
  12. See a Friend in Tears [CD bonus track] (LP: Él/Cherry Red, él ACME 2; CD: ACME 2CD)
Recorded in September 1985 at Alaska Studios, London.

May 1986 non-LP 12" "Nicky"

  1. "Nicky"
  2. Don't Leave
  3. See a Friend in Tears
All titles by Jacques Brél. Recorded in April 1986 at Padded Cell. (Él/Cherry Red, GPO 9T)

Oct 1986 non-LP 12" Murderers, the Hope of Women

  1. Murderers, the Hope of Women
  2. What Will Death Be Like?
  3. Eleven Executioners (Creation, CRE 037/037 T)
Recorded 1986 at Blue Mountain, London.

May 1987 LP (+ CD 1988) THE POISON BOYFRIEND

  1. Murderers, the Hope of Women [only on CD]
  2. Eleven Executioners [only on CD]
  3. What Will Death Be Like? [only on CD]
  4. The Gatecrasher
  5. Violets
  6. Islington John
  7. Three Wars
  8. Flame into Being
  9. Situation Comedy Blues
  10. Sex for the Disabled
  11. Closer to You (CD: Creation, CRELP 021 CD)
Recorded 1987 at The Chocolate Factory, New Cross, London. Produced by Julian Standen.

April 1988 LP/CD TENDER PERVERT

  1. The Angels Are Voyeurs
  2. Love on Ice
  3. I Was a Maoist Intellectual
  4. The Homosexual
  5. Bishonen
  6. Right Hand Heart [only on bonus single and on CD]
  7. A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy (Parts 17-24)
  8. Ice King
  9. In the Sanatorium
  10. The Charm of Innocence
  11. The Angels Are Voyeurs (Reprise) (CD: Creation, CRELP-036 CD)
Recorded 1988 at Wildlife Studio, Mile End, London. Engineered by Nigel Palmer, produced by Momus.
A bonus 7" single came with the first 2,000 LPs, including 'The Poison Boyfriend' (an out-take from 1982) & Right Hand Heart.

April 1989 7"/12" The Hairstyle of the Devil

    The Hairstyle of the Devil 3.25/Amongst Women Only 4.00 (7": Creation, CER 063-L)

    The Hairstyle of the Devil 4.28//Amongst Women Only 4.00/Monsters of Love (12": CER 063-LT)

Originally recorded 1988 at Wildlife Studio, Mile End, London. This version remixed in January 1989 by Dave Ball and Richard Norris at Pacific, London.

Nov 1989 LP/CD DON'T STOP THE NIGHT

  1. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
  2. Righthand Heart [re-recording]
  3. Lord of the Dance
  4. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
  5. How Do You Find My Sister?
  6. The Hairstyle of the Devil 4.28 [only on CD]
  7. Don't Stop the Night
  8. Amongst Women Only
  9. The Guitar Lesson
  10. The Cabriolet
  11. Shaftesbury Avenue (CD: CRE CD 052)
Recorded 1989 at The Spike studio, Chelsea, London, 1989. Produced and played by Momus.

June 1990 coll-CD/LP MONSTERS OF LOVE - SINGLES 1985-90

  1. Morality Is Vanity [specially recorded for this compilation]
  2. Ballad of the Barrel-Organist
  3. Hotel Marquis de Sade
  4. Third Party, Fire and Theft
  5. Murderers, the Hope of Women
  6. What Will Death Be Like?
  7. Eleven Executioners
  8. Gilda [specially recorded for this compilation; originally written for French singer Jil Kaplan]
  9. The Hairstyle of the Devil 3.25
  10. Monsters of Love 4.20 [different version] (CRECD 059)
The new tracks (1, 8, 10) were recorded in 1989 at The Spike Studio, Chelsea, London.

April 1991 CD/LP HIPPOPOTAMOMUS

  1. Hippopotamomus
  2. I Ate a Girl Right up
  3. Michelin Man [only on rare original CD - not on 1994 re-release CD]
  4. A Dull Documentary
  5. Marquis of Sadness
  6. Bluestocking
  7. Ventriloquists and Dolls
  8. The Painter and His Model
  9. A Monkey for Sallie
  10. Pornography
  11. Song in Contravention (CRECD 097)
Recorded 1991 at The Spike Studio, Fulham, London, 1991. Produced and played by Momus. Original LP and CD had elements of the Michelin logo on the cover, and included Michelin Man which " talks about their mascot's sexual prowess". Momus comments: "An article in GQ magazine actually describes a Michelin board meeting in which the lyrics of my song were read out to a horrified group of directors."

April 1992 CD/LP THE ULTRACONFORMIST

  1. Sinister Themes
  2. Last of the Window Cleaners
  3. The Ladies Understand
  4. Cape and Stick Gang
  5. The Ultraconformist
  6. The Mother-in-Law
  7. La Catrina
  8. The Cheque's in the Post
  9. Spy on the Moon
  10. Forests (Cherry Red, MONDE 3 CD)
Recorded at The Spike Studio.

May 1992 CDM Spacewalk (Deja Vu Remix)

  1. Spacewalk (Deja Vu Remix) 5.02
  2. Spacewalk (Extended Mix) 8.05
  3. Conquistador (Lovecut DB Remix) 6.10
  4. Momutation 3 (2.28) (CRESCD-134)
June 1992 CD/LP VOYAGER
  1. Cibachrome Blue
  2. Virtual Reality
  3. Vocation
  4. Conquistador
  5. Spacewalk (3.50)
  6. Summer Holiday 1999
  7. Afterglow
  8. Trans Siberian Express
  9. Voyager
  10. Momutation 3 (2.28) [remixed by lovecut db] (CRECD 113)
Recorded 1992 at The Spike Studio, Fulham, London, 1992. Produced and played by Momus.

Nov 1993 CD/LP TIMELORD

  1. Platinum
  2. Enlightenment
  3. You've Changed
  4. Landrover
  5. Rhetorie
  6. Suicide Pact
  7. Christmas on Earth
  8. Breathless (CRECD 151)
Recorded at Cleveland Street, London, 1993. Produced, played and engineered by Momus. The 'W.A.G.T.B.T' note on the back cover stands for 'We are going to be together', a secret message from Momus to his girlfriend Shazna Nessa, to whom this album was dedicated. They wanted to get married but Shazna's family tried to prevent them.

June 1994 Japanese coll-CD LEARNING TO BE HUMAN

  1. Righthand Heart
  2. Spacewalk (Deja Vu Remix)
  3. Voyager
  4. Marquis of Sadness
  5. Amongst Women Only
  6. Murderers, the Hope of Women
  7. The Gatecrasher
  8. Gilda
  9. Enlightenment
  10. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
  11. I Was a Maoist Intellectual
  12. Violets
  13. Breathless
  14. In the Sanatorium
  15. Ballad of the Barrel Organist
  16. Poison Boyfriend (1982)
  17. The Angels Are Voyeurs (Reprise) (Nippon Columbia, COCY 75897)
April 1995 CDM The Sadness of Things
  1. The Sadness of Things
  2. London 1888
  3. The End of History
  4. An Inflatable Doll [first version of I Had a Girl] (Cherry Red, CD Cherry 137)
May 1995 CD THE PHILOSOPHY OF MOMUS
  1. Toothbrushead
  2. The Madness of Lee Scratch Perry
  3. It's Important To Be Trendy
  4. Quark & Charm, The Robot Twins
  5. Girlish Boy
  6. Yokohama Chinatown
  7. Withinity
  8. K's Diary
  9. Virtual Valerie
  10. Red Pyjamas
  11. The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko
  12. Slide Projector Lie Detector
  13. Microworlds
  14. Complicated
  15. I Had a Girl
  16. The Philosophy of Momus
  17. The Loneliness of Lift Music
  18. Paranoid Acoustic Seduction Machine
  19. The Sadness of Things (CD BRED 119)
Collaborations with other artists. Recorded in London and Paris.

23 Oct 1995 re-recording CD SLENDER SHERBET

  1. A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy
  2. The Guitar Lesson
  3. Closer to You
  4. The Homosexual
  5. The Charm of Innocence
  6. Lucky Like St. Sebastian
  7. I Was a Maoist Intellectual
  8. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
  9. The Angels Are Voyeurs
  10. Hotel Marquis de Sade
  11. The Gatecrasher
  12. The Hairstyle of the Devil
  13. Bishonen
  14. Angels (Reprise)
  15. A Complete History of Penis Envy (Sizes 24-29) [unannounced parody demo version]
  16. The Guitar Lesson [unannounced parody demo version]
  17. Maybe You're the Fat Girl [unannounced parody demo version of Closer to You]
    (CD BRED 123)
23 Sep 1996 demo/rarities CD 20 VODKA JELLIES
  1. I Am a Kitten
  2. Vogue Bambini
  3. The Poisoners
  4. Nikon 2
  5. Giapponese a Roma
  6. Paolo [recorded during Voyager sessions]
  7. The End of History
  8. London 1888 [intended for Timelord]
  9. Streetlamp Soliloquy
  10. An Inflatable Doll [first version of I Had a Girl]
  11. Saved
  12. Someone
  13. Howard Hughes
  14. Three Beasts
  15. Good Morning World
  16. Germania
  17. Radiant Night
  18. The Girl with No Body
  19. Orgasm Addict
  20. Nobody (CDMRED 133)
Sep ca 1996 (deleted) demo CD STOP THIS!
  1. Broken to Joking 5.53
  2. A Card from Islington 4.30
  3. Confectioner 4.33
  4. The Kitten's Telephone 3.16
  5. Millipedes 2.33
  6. My Double 3.51
  7. Smart Drugs 3.47
  8. Things You Never Did 1.01
  9. I'm Still Trying 2.46
  10. Young People Today 4.40
  11. Trance Cocktail Airlines 2.55 [sung by Laila France]
  12. David Hamilton 4.04 [sung by Laila France]
  13. Good Morning World 1.17 [extract from Kahimi Karie song]
  14. Japanese Especially 2.13 [sung by Laila France]
  15. Organon 2.55 [sung by Laila France]
  16. The Pink Song 4.08 [sung by Laila France]
  17. Le Roi Soleil 1.17 [extract from Kahimi Karie song]
  18. Airline Trailer 0.14 [sung by Laila France]
  19. Trashy Like TV 1.47 [sung by Laila France]
  20. Life of an Office Worker 4.41 [sung by Momus]
  21. Sensation of Orgasm 3.54 [sung by Momus]
  22. Jackie Onassis 4.00 [sung by Shazna]
  23. Emperor of Oranges 3.21 [sung by Shazna]
"A rather lo-fi mono audio CD, contains 19 demos of unreleased songs by Momus".

Momus told me 15 Dec 1999: "I no longer want to make the demo audio CD Stop This, but the CD ROM 'This Must Stop' may still be available on request, and it contains most of the tracks on the audio CD, hidden in various places."

26 Oct 1997 CD PING PONG

  1. Ping Pong with Hong Kong King Kong (A Sing Song)
  2. His Majesty the Baby
  3. My Pervert Doppelganger
  4. I Want You, But I Don't Need You
  5. Professor Shaftenberg
  6. Shoesize of the Angel
  7. The Age of Information
  8. The Sensation of Orgasm
  9. Anthem of Shibuya
  10. Lolitapop Dollhouse
  11. Tamagotchi Press Officer
  12. Space Jews
  13. My Kindly Friend the Censor
  14. The Animal That Desires
  15. How to Get - and Stay - Famous
  16. 2PM (European CD: Bungalow 031/RTD 346-0031.2)
Recorded at The Meat Market, London, 1997.

26 Oct 1998 CD LITTLE RED SONGBOOK

  1. Old Friend, New Flame 2.10
  2. MC Escher 3.28
  3. Who Is Mr. Jones? 2.08
  4. Harry K-Tel 2.05
  5. Lucretia Borgia 2.50
  6. How to Spot an Invert 1.41
  7. Everyone I Have Ever Slept with 2.43
  8. Born to Be Adored 4.15
  9. Coming in a Girl's Mouth 1.34
  10. What Are You Wearing? 5.30
  11. The New Decameron 1.40
  12. The Symphonies of Beethoven 4.00
  13. Tragedy and Farce 2.40
  14. Miss X, an Ex-Lover 2.10
  15. A White Oriental Flower 0.00-2.46 / I Can See Japan 3.18-4.47
    BONUS TRACKS:
  16. Old Friend, New Flame (Karaoke)
  17. Tragedy and Farce (Karaoke)
  18. The New Decameron (Karaoke)
  19. Coming in a Girl's Mouth (Karaoke)
  20. Mrs. X, an Ex-Lover (Karaoke)
  21. Harry K-Tell (Karaoke)
  22. Who Is Mr. Jones? (Karaoke)
  23. How to Spot an Invert (Karaoke)
  24. The Symphonies of Beethoven (Karaoke) (Cherry Red, ANALOG 001 CD)
'I Can See Japan' was recorded when Nick Currie was 7 years old.

The US reissue version of Little Red Songbook has 'one inexplicable omission and three extra songs to replace it: Some Mistranslations, The Ugly Sister and Welcome To My Show Trial'.

23 Aug 1999 2-CD STARS FOREVER

  1. Other Music
  2. Tinnitus
  3. 3D Corporation
  4. Akiko Masuda
  5. Stefano Zarelli
  6. Minty Fresh
  7. Jeff Koons
  8. Milton Jacobson
  9. Mai Noda
  10. Robert Dye
  11. Florence Manlik
  12. Adam Green
  13. Maf
  14. Stephanie Pappas
  15. Steven Zeeland
  16. Mika Akutsu
  17. Miles Franklin
  18. Paolo Rumi
  19. Karin Komoto
  1. Reckless Records
  2. Kokoro Hirai
  3. Indiepop List
  4. Keigo Oyamada
  5. Team Clermont
  6. Brent Busboom
  7. Natsuko Tayama
  8. Girlie Action
  9. Minus 5
  10. Noah Brill
  11. Shawn Kreuger
  12. New Flame, Same Old Story (by Christian Carl)
  13. Not Intended for Children (by Bill Hardy)
  14. Coming on an Intern's Dress (by Mr Kate Jenkins)
  15. Nicky My Friend (by Diego Zapparoli and Paola)
  16. Mr Jones (by Jack Curtis Dubowsky)
  17. Taste of Pink Champagne (by El Topo)
  18. Onan the Barbarian (by Richard Knowles)
  19. Suggestion to Jealous Men (by Olivier Schopfer) (Cherry Red, ANALOG 002 CD)
CD 2 contains bonus tracks (20-44) where Momus speaks about this CD.

29 Jan 2001 CD FOLKTRONIC

  1. Appalachia
  2. Smooth Folk Singer
  3. Mountain Music
  4. Simple Men
  5. Finnegan the Folk Hero
  6. Protestant Art
  7. U.S. Knitting
  8. Jarre in Hicksville
  9. Tape Recorder Man
  10. Little Apples
  11. Robocowboys
  12. Psychopathia Sexualis
  13. Folk Me Amadeus
  14. Handheld
  15. The Penis Song
  16. Heliogabalus
  17. Going for a Walk with a Line
  18. The Lady of Shalott
  19. Mistaken Memories of Medieval Manhattan
  20. Pygmalism (Cherry Red, Analog 006CD)
Recorded at the Fakeways Institute, New York City, June - September 2000.

17 Feb 2003 CD OSKAR TENNIS CHAMPION

  1. Spooky Kabuki 3.05
  2. Is It Because I'm a Pirate? 3.26
  3. Multiplying Love 1.29
  4. Scottish Lips 2.59
  5. My Sperm Is Not Your Enemy 2.23
  6. Oskar Tennis Champion 4.10
  7. A Little Schubert 3.37
  8. The Laird of Inversnecky 3.40
  9. The Last Communist 5.01
  10. Pierrot Lunaire 5.28
  11. Beowulf (I Am Deformed) 4.29
  12. Electrosexual Sewing Machine 3.51
  13. A Lapdog 4.18
  14. Lovely Tree 3.22
  15. Palm Deathtop 3.20
  16. The Ringtone Cycle 7.32 [a track of 8 bit melodies by Oliver Cobol]
    (UK/European CD: Analog Baroque ANALOG 008CD; US CD: American Patchwork AMPATCH 005)

  17. Beowulf (Digiki Remix) 5.20 [remixed in Paris by Antonin Gaultier] [Japanese CD extra track]
  18. Erostratus 2.00 [Japanese CD extra track] (Japanese CD: Quattro QUATTRO 050)
Recorded in Tokyo and 'reproduced' in Michigan by John Fashion Flesh.

23 Feb 2003 coll-2CD FORBIDDEN SOFTWARE TIMEMACHINE - BEST OF THE CREATION YEARS 1987-1993

  1. Bishonen [from Tender Pervert, 1988]
  2. The Gatecrasher [from The Poison Boyfriend, 1987]
  3. Murderers, the Hope of Women [from The Poison Boyfriend, 1987]
  4. Love on Ice [from Tender Pervert, 1988]
  5. The Homosexual [from Tender Pervert, 1988]
  6. How Do You Find My Sister? [from Don't Stop the Night, 1989]
  7. A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy (Parts 17-24) [from Tender Pervert, 1988]
  8. The Hairstyle of the Devil [single 1989, bonus track on Don't Stop the Night CD 1989]
  9. Shaftesbury Avenue [from Don't Stop the Night, 1989]
  10. The Guitar Lesson [from Don't Stop the Night, 1989]
  11. In The Sanatorium [from Tender Pervert, 1988]
  12. The Charm of Innocence [from Tender Pervert, 1988]
  13. Closer to You [from The Poison Boyfriend, 1987]
  1. Hippopotamomus [from Hippopotamomus, 1991]
  2. Ventriloquists and Dolls [from Hippopotamomus, 1991]
  3. Monsters of Love [from Monsters of Love, 1990]
  4. A Monkey for Sallie [from Hippopotamomus, 1991]
  5. Bluestocking [from Hippopotamomus, 1991]
  6. Morality Is Vanity [from Monsters of Love, 1990]
  7. Platinum [from Timelord, 1993]
  8. Cibachrome Blue [from Voyager, 1992]
  9. Rhetoric [from Timelord, 1993]
  10. Summer Holiday 1999 [from Voyager, 1992]
  11. Spacewalk [from Voyager, 1992]
  12. Voyager [from Voyager, 1992]
  13. Enlightenment [from Timelord, 1993]
  14. Song in Contravention [from Hippopotamomus, 1991]
27 Oct 2003 DVD MOMUS - A MAN OF LETTERS
58 minutes.

12 April 2004 CD MOMUS & ANNE LAPLANTINE: SUMMERISLE

  1. Fur Ming Felt Hunt
  2. Black Earth Buzz
  3. Go Fishing Wildly
  4. Spin Thread Annie
  5. McKenzie Fling
  6. Fingal Martin’s Mistress
  7. The Tailor of Dunblane
  8. Manty Kelin
  9. A Spratch ‘O’ Thyme
  10. Trilly Birthphone
  11. Johnny Jump Up
  12. Seakliff Kragg
  13. Ossian May (Analog Baroque, ANALOG 10CD)
14 Feb 2005 CD OTTO SPOOKY
  1. Sempreverde
  2. Life of the Fields
  3. Corkscrew King
  4. Klaxon
  5. Robin Hood
  6. Lady Fancy Knickers
  7. Lute Score
  8. Belvedere
  9. Your Fat Friend
  10. Mr Ulysses
  11. The Water Song
  12. Jesus in Furs
  13. Bantam Boys
  14. Cockle Pickers
  15. The Artist Overwhelmed (Analog Baroque, ANALOG 11CD)
Recorded during spring and early summer of 2004 in Berlin.

25 Sep 2006 CD OCKY MILK

  1. Moop Bears
  2. Frilly Military
  3. The Birdcatcher
  4. Nervous Heartbeat
  5. Dialtone
  6. Hang Low
  7. Permagasm
  8. Pleasantness
  9. Devil Mask, Buddha Mind
  10. 7000 Bc
  11. Zanzibar
  12. Count Ossie in China
  13. Dr Cat
  14. I Refuse to Die
  15. Ex-Erotomane (Analog Baroque, ANALOG 012CD)

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